A Beloved Tool and its Replacement

By Mark Michael When my father started as a hardware salesman, his boss handed him the catalog, the essential tool of his trade. Always in the trunk of his car, it was a wonder to me as a child. Nearly a... Read More...

The Innocent Curate, Revisited

By David M. Baumann The May 28, 2017 issue of The Living Church featured a cover article by Richard J. Mammana about a book called The Innocent Curate by Paris Leary. Doubleday had published it in 1963. I first read this book about 40 years ago when I borro... Read More...

Longing for a Re-enchanted World:

David Bentley Hart’s Roland in Moonlight By Matt Boulter When, several years ago, I read Jean Grondin’s intellectual biography Gadamer, about the eponymous German continental philosopher, I was astonished a... Read More...

Passion and Failure in the Church’s Story

By Mark Michael Generally, we don’t review self-published books in our pages. Lacking professional editors, such volumes often suffer from internal repetitiveness, poor or outdated argumentation, and grammatical incoherence. Self-published books also tend t... Read More...

Imposters

By Hannah Matis Can a murderer be a minister? This is the question which haunts the eloquent, idiosyncratic exploration, The Minister and the Murder, by Stuart Kelly, of the strange case of the matricide and... Read More...